Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS by Mike Langley

The tale of Anders Lassen is among the such a lot striking and heroic of the second one international battle – certainly within the background of the British armed companies. He was once presented at the very least 3 army Crosses and the SAS regiment’s purely Victoria pass. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed simply with a knife, Lassen have been well-known as rather targeted. He took half in a chain of awesome moves opposed to the Axis powers in West Africa, Normandy, the Channel Islands, the Aegean and Greece, the Balkans and, ultimately, in Italy. This vintage biography of a amazing warrior, which was once first released in 1988, relies on interviews with Lassen’s fellow infantrymen and a wealth of unique study. It covers each one degree of Lassen’s brief, impressive profession in vibrant element and provides a penetrating perception into the outstanding braveness, self belief and single-minded motivation that lay in the back of Lassen’s impressive exploits. Mike Langley additionally reconstructs, utilizing the testimony of survivors, the operation during which Lassen used to be killed and for which he was once provided the Victoria go.

Over the past 70 years, in numerous books and essays, Hermann Göring has been outlined via his crimes and extra through the 3rd Reich and the second one global battle. yet his actions as a tender profession army officer in global battle i've got at all times been glossed over – beforehand. 'Hermann Göring – Fighter Ace' is the 1st in-depth examine Göring’s function as an army flyer and air wrestle chief from 1914 during the finish of the nice warfare, and the way these stories formed the character that got here to the world’s awareness in 1939.

One of many U. S. army s top identified submarine officials, Capt. Edward L. seashore, loved reputation either as a bestselling writer and as a hugely embellished naval officer. now not lengthy after the luck of his first novel Run Silent, Run Deep, which used to be later made right into a significant characteristic movie, he commanded the 1st submarine to circumnavigate the globe submerged.

The yr was once 1939. struggle had simply been declared. whilst Chris Lessing,a younger military officer from the Transvaal meets Joan Mercer, a fine looking younger lady from Simon’s city firstly of the second one global conflict, the chemistryis spontaneous and explosive. he's Afrikaans, she is English. they arrive fromdifferent worlds yet think their love is robust sufficient to outlive regardless of the percentages.

During this gripping number of first-hand debts, Ian Knight offers the journey of nineteenth-century struggle – from the joys of the cavalry fees at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the phobia of conflict opposed to an overpowering odds resembling Rorke's glide – within the phrases of the lads truly there.